Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-06
WILLIAM SPARKS.
THE NEWS ~EPITOMIZED.

Chicago gave to Roche, republican
candidate for mayor, v e $4,000 ma
iority over Nelson, socialistlc.
Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of Hon. sR. B..
Roosevelt, of New York died suddenly
last night Of apoplexy at her residence
in Sayville, L. I.
The Missouri Pacific round,house at
Omaha burned at 8 O'Clock yesterday
morning destroying four locomotives,
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
In Cincinnati the complete count for
mayor shows: Smith, republican. H.
963; Matson, democrat II ,951; Steven
son. labor, 1887; Smiths plurality, 506.
State Senator Days bill appropriat-
ing $3.50 900 for the improvement of the
canals Of New York state became q Law
yesterday morning without the govern
or's signature.
Josiah Caldwell, company promoter OF
Telegraph sts London, has failed. His
liabilities are believed to be enormous.
He failed once before for one million
pounds sterling y
a Wardner, Idaho, special OF yesterday
says: The steamer Spokane with twenty
four passengers capsized on the Occur
d'Aiene river at / o'clock this afternoon.
Five men are reported lost.
Chief Assistant General Passenger
Agent Vandusen OF the Pennsylvania
road states that the impression that tue
Eastern tariff association had boycotted
90 western railroads was erroneous.
The latest figures on the Michigan
election place the republican plurality
on the state ticket at about 5000, while
on the prohibition amendment the OPP
position majority will be about $500.
The Interstate m board has
engaged quarters in the new marble
building erected by the Baltimore Sun
in Washington. They will be located on
the fifth Hoos at an annual rental Of
So 5000.
w. A. CLARK, the registry clerk in the
New York p~ostofioe who confessed to
the theft of $40 900 in bills recently and
who was released on So. 500 bail. has
skipped for Canada. He had confessed
to stealing about $4,000.
The British tramp steamer Carmons,
which left Barrow. England, February
%, for New York has not yet arrived,
and is given up as lost with all hands on
board. The vessel was commanded by
=. A. Halcrow, and had o crew of thirty
three Q
The steamer Sidney, Of the Diamond
Joe line Of steamers, arrived as Wabasha.
Minnesota. yesterday morning from st.
Louis. After discharging q light cargo
she turned back, being unable to get
through Lake Pepin on account of the
ice.
In the Arensdorf trial at Sioux City
yesterday John Diedrich, who boards at
the Milwaukee house kept by Panl Lea
der, one of the defendants, swore point
blank that bismarck" was not at The
scene. of the murder. He was with him
when the shot was fred, two blocks
awey.
No tIdings ofthe steamer S%alerno, Of
the Wilson line. heve been heard since
that vessel was spoken March ~, in q
disabled condition 600 miles from Halt
fax. In the shipping circles there is
some anxiety, but the Office OF the New
YORK agents every confidence is ex-
pressed that she will reach some port in
safety.
Regarding the municipal election ne
suit the Cincinnati Enquirer says: ut
ia at least .clear that no democrat upon
the gAnerAi ticket has been chossn,
Fstsa arald ran ahead Of the remainder,
sat not sufficiently. Tho party is left
icompletely out. The republican maiori-